Jonah Karp interviewing the two heroes from West Hampton’s 10-8 victory over the Road Warriors pic.twitter.com/Z2kFMloYPH aXcess Baseball (@axcessbaseball) July 19, 2017 Fireworks were still going off two weeks after Independence Day. Didnt hear them? Well then you werent in Westhampton Beach Tuesday afternoon. Eight balls were hit over the fence at Aviator Field, six of them by way of Aviators. Those six home runs set a new single-game record for the Westhampton Aviators, breaking the five home runs they hit on June 30 against the North Fork Ospreys last season. But the discrepancy in home runs does not tell the story of the game. As a matter of fact, the Long Island Road Warriors were an out away from winning the game. Let me take you to that moment It...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbifqwX4G7M Westhampton Beach hosted two baseball games on Sunday afternoon, and the Aviators were ready to return home. The top team in the HCBL hosted North Fork in a back-to-back game double-header for the sixth and seventh meetings this season. The Aviators were coming off an 11-1 victory in Shelter Island in a game that ended after eight innings due to the mercy rule. Meanwhile, the Ospreys had not played since Wednesday, a game they lost in Westhampton 9-7, due to the torrential downpour that swept through Long Island. In a match up that was billed a hot vs. cold narrative, the hot team proved to dominate. The Aviators took game one 5-3, but it was the Ospreys that got off to a fast start. After Braeden Holub retired the first two batters of the game, ...